BlueYard Capital

Check Size
€500K – €5M

Investment Focus

Sectors

Investment Stages

Geographic Focus

Investment Thesis

Invest only in technologies that move toward utopia or hold the line against oblivion. Focus on civilization-scale risks and fabric-layer infrastructure in computation, biology, engineering and crypto.

How to Pitch BlueYard Capital

No Stated Policy
BlueYard Capital hasn't published an outreach policy. A short, specific cold email is the safest default.

Who To Contact

Alejo Salles
Partner
Chad Fowler
Partner

YC Portfolio Overlap

BlueYard Capital backed 3 Y Combinator companies, 1 flagged YC top company.

Stripe
Stripe

Economic infrastructure for the internet.

Summer 2009
Fintech
Grid
Grid
Summer 2012
Consumer
Protocol Labs
Protocol Labs

Protocol Labs makes internet protocols: IPFS, Filecoin, and more.

Summer 2014
B2B

Portfolio Highlights

Computation
Intelligence We
Corintis
Filecoin
Privy
AnySignal
Stripe
Foresight Data Machines
Kindred
Grid
Groq
InPho
Manex AI
Pitch
SEEQC
Vectary
Chemify
Wing
Flashbots
Protocol Labs

Team

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Alejo Salles
Partner
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Chad Fowler
Partner
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Ciarán O'Leary
Partner
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David Byrd
Partner
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Jason Whitmire
Partner
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Katie Hewitt
Partner
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Mike Wax
Partner
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Peter Read
Partner
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Philipp Banhardt
Partner
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Tim Robinson
Partner
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Trent McConaghy
Partner
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Focus and check size from the firm's website. Website reachable as of Oct 2026.

Ready to Reach BlueYard Capital?

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